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INTERVIEW WITH SADISTIC INTENT

Bay Cortez, Rick Cortez, Ernesto Bueno and Arthur Mendiola

Sadistic Intent is one of the most respected bands in the underground death metal scene. The four-piece guided by the Cortez brothers has doggedly been carving out their path in death metal since 1987. The band has had ups and downs during these years, but gained monumental status in the death metal scene. Sadistic Intent is a brutal war machine as far as their material is concerned and above all the four piece’s gigs are a pure triumph of true and brutal death metal. Metal-Rules.com sat down with the whole band and had a long conversation about various topics.

Helsinki Finlnd

Interview by Luxi Lahtinen

Sometimes, mostly on rare occasions, things just tend to happen spontaneously. Like for example yesterday evening, I saw Enrique Chavez on line when I was doing mail via Myspace site – knowing he´s friends with the guys of Sadistic Intent. I just dropped him a note, asking politely whether he could send out my greetings to my friends in Sadistic Intent, but also remembering that both me and Enrique used to be in touch many years ago – and also knowing the fact he also sang in Sadistic Intent in the past (IMPENDING DOOM… is a fuckin´ brilliant release from this band – check it out!).

Then we started discussing about things, and especially the past times including the tape trading scene, how the scene was back in those ´golden times of 80´s´, Enrique´s involvement with Sadistic Intent, some worth mentioning new bands of today´s metal scene, etc. etc. What basically happened, we were simply chatting and one topic led to another, and our whole conversation turned out to be so interesting and exciting that I suggested Enrique eventually that would he mind if I published our conversation in Metal-Rules.com. In fact, he felt honored about my idea, so here is the whole conversation we went through on line on Monday evening, 20th of July 2009. Something worth reading for the old school metal heads, and especially the Sadistic Intent fans, so enjoy… ;o)

The 15th -16th of August 2008

Oulu Teatria Finland

Finland is definitely one hell of a paradise for metalheads as there are five to six metal festivals arranged all around Finland during the summer time. One of those metal festivals which has started becoming more and more known is Jalometalli up in the north of Finland. The whole festival started as a small event, mostly consisting of local bands. Jalometalli has since grown, attracting plenty of killer and catchy names such as Onslaught, Testament, and Rotting Christ. This year’s event was no exception with several first time visitors such as Overkill, Trouble and Mortal Sin. It is obvious most of these bands have been all time favs of the Jalometalli organization. The festival is not a big massive gathering of tens of thousands of people. Instead, the event is a small, true, intense metal event with visitors having travelled from far away. This is the very first time ever when Jalometalli festival is covered by Metal-Rules.com. And if you live somewhere in the northern part of Sweden, Norway or Russia, start seriously considering having a roadtrip to the next Jalometalli event as the line-up of 2009 will surely be full of pleasant surprises…

What happened to Sadistic Intent, some of you may wonder silently in your minds. The band was working with their THE SECOND COMING OF DARKNESS debut full-lenght album in 2002, but when things really start to go badly wrong, they do – and nothing can stop them going wrong. That was Sadistic Intent´s unfortunate faith with their 1st attempts to get the album recorded back in the day; everything ended up for a real mess.

However, as long as there´s some hope left, almost anything can be expected, even the second coming of Sadistic Intent. And talking about these so-called ´2nd comings´, Possessed´s sort of ´second coming´ has been going on for a while already. Namely the band members of Sadistic Intent have been currently been doing one-off shows with Jeff Benjamin Becerra, playing classic Possessed songs in Europe, in the States, and in Mexico with a huge enthusiasm. It all started with a special reunion show of Possessed that took place at Wacken festival in August 2007. At the same time, Sadistic Intent played one-off gig in Hamburg, Germany – actually the day after the Wacken weekend, together with the Dutch old school Death Metal masters Pentacle.

Since Possessed´s special Wacken performance and Sadistic Intent´s show at Ballroom in Hamburg last year, lots of things have happened. Read all about these things – amongst other very interesting plans both Sadistic Intent and Possessed have in their sleeves about a number of things. Both Jeff Becerra of Possessed and Rick Cortez of Sadistic Intent, opened slightly their private boxes of secrets for Metal-Rules.com… ENJOY! ;o)